Simon T

Gwen Owens ? I'm sure she said at Prestatyn she was 16 when she cut JSYWAN

Recently I paid way over the odds for a copy of Pro-Fascination from another respected collector because it irritated me when I heard it on CD but didn't own it on vinyl. Most people would think I was mad on that deal too. Just out of interest, what percentage over 'the odds' were you prepared to pay? 5% 50% 200%? Also, now that you've attained the prised disk, what have you done with it? Played it non stop, played it a couple of times and put it on the shelf, or thought what a silly begger I am and asked Manship to auction it for you?

Pete As a special treat for a Saturday night, put up Jery Naylor - City Lights ..... should at least frighten the kids into going to bed!!!

How did I know you were gonna ask that? The better of the two don't you think?

I love that style of music myself, soul or not. It'd be nice to have a definitive CD of that sort of sound, any out there?

The Royal Five - Nobody Else I think it has recently be re-released with 'Don't Stop' on the other side

Yes, I've got the 7" that you have t0o, & the 12", but it's a different mix to both of them. Also, it is a proper 45, I've had it my hands for a moment and that was years ago before 'vinyl carvers'!

It's gone down the wires now, hope it turns up and plays OK. When you play it will you, after deticating to your mate, introduce in the age-old Barnfather style "Alfie Davison - Twelver!"

No sorry thats the omnipresent common or garden 7" mix .This was a Charm City 7" too, played to me just as I was leaving to catch a train so couln't have a good examination of it. Thnaks anyway.

I doubt it as his technical skills don't go much beyond working a tape player! Anyway he played it to a mate in his presence. Maybe I shouldn't have called him a tight ****!

The other mix of the Nurons didn't get released. Someone played it down the phone to me and when I asked him to copy for me, he somehow had just lost the cassette!

I'll try to get it to you, but it's over 7mb, so it might not get through. When do you need it by?

I like to hear properly (i.e. not down the phone) the other mixes of Nurons - All My Life & Curtis - How Can I Tell her (no, not the 12" mix)

All the lasses seem to love Ruby Andrew - Just Loving You

The kid singing that old Little Carl Carlton C/U sounds that young it must have been recorded 'in utero'!

Mark There was a CD swop a while ago, and your CD contained what I would call 'ambrosia' , every track a peach. What the 'scene' needs is people like you who know a great tune and don't get bogged down in the bolotics!

Gene Redd was a great producer IMHO..isn't he the father of Sharon Redd, famous singer of 'Love Insurance' ' Can You Handle It' 'Beat The Street' 'Never Give You Up' 'Love Is Gonna Get Ya' 'Send Your Love' and 'In The Name Of Love' (northern potential that one) ? Or was that another Redd?

Yes, it was called the "Tournament Of The Jams!", blurb from 1988. Mixture of 7"'s & 12"'s, a few very good tunes, but also some utter crap

Apparently not, though I think they're the same group, but maybe a different lead singer? Have a listen, what do you think? T'other side 'Keep Away' came out on Red Coach too. ISYT is a Red Coach production (Gene Redd = Red Coach records)

Yes it's a bloody 'nightmare' need to be a bit more high-energy and maybe some incessant jingle bells? Fooking Gene Redd must be the second worse producer and arranger of soul records on the planet!

“Frampton Casino” It’d have to be an old building, but decently furbished. 3 rooms. Big free hotel next door for everyone to crash in One huge hall with a balcony. However , all the DJ’s would have to be ‘eclectic’. 1961 to 1991. No ‘ever-greens’, dinosaurs, and has-beens. How about: Adrian Pountain (the scenes most underrated person) & Ian Clark would come out of retirement. Mark Etheridge, Lisa Hurley, Adrian C (Market H). , Ian Wright (Chelmsford), Blair (Poke) Darran, Simon Murray, Robin Salter, Adam Bucchanan, Dick Coombes, Graham Ellis, Steve Phyllis, Jim Wensiora, Rob Wigley, Carl Fortnum, Andy Rix, Nige Parker, Gary Spencer, ….. and of course Dave Thorley playing ‘Colors & Jesse Hendrson. Next room for; ‘modern’ (i.e. 70’s & 80’s), R&B sounding soul, club soul, circa 1968, but not northern very oldies sounds, . ‘deep funk’, cross-over, ‘boogie’, etc Last one about 50 foot square, with no lighting, but chairs down each side for ‘puckled’ folks to sit , not communicating with anyone – music policy, the sort of sh*te you play form 11 till 2 on a Sunday afternoon after a niter.

but what a record though ... both sides "Keep Away" also came out on Red Coach (the early design label), but even that goes for a few hundred quid.